A database funded by the federal government and run by a research group at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) recently labeled Students for Life of America (SFLA) as a “terrorist group.”
UMD’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) operates the research database known as Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS).
According to The College Fix , PIRUS “purportedly tracks ‘ideologically motivated criminal activity’ and known ‘extremists’ through 2021.”
“[T]wo Students for Life of America members who were arrested for writing ‘black pre-born lives matter’ on a sidewalk in 2020 are recorded in PIRUS,” the Fix reported . “This puts them among white supremacists, jihadist groups, and other threats.”“Moreover, SFLA appears under a ‘Terrorist_Group’ label in the raw dataset,” the Fix added.SFLA spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick blasted this labeling as “an attempt to smear the reputations of peaceful students who use their free […]
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